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Post by DADDY O on Jan 9, 2017 13:16:30 GMT
OK..............I thought " The Dressmaker" was weird, and it was, but it has nothing over the movie " Florence Foster Jenkins". I don't think I got halfway through the movie without turning it off...............but, on the other hand.....my wife (of course) loved it. She laughed for hours. Me, I stuck my fingers in my ears so I did not have to listen to her sing the scales again. It is about the story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. BTW......this was a British Movie. You Commonwealth people have a strange sense of humor..............bar none. www.imdb.com/title/tt4136084/ |
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Post by sherri on Jan 11, 2017 21:04:24 GMT
I think I would like it.
It looks very American in dialogue to me though. Was the director really British?
The Dressmaker was truly very funny. Over the top, but that was half of what was funny.
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 12, 2017 17:42:32 GMT
Maybe it's a Yankee film, but there were a lot of British actors in it. I couldn't sit through the whole movie.
To me it was just annoying...........she really couldn't sing..........more like yelling through her nose.
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Post by sherri on Jan 12, 2017 21:16:34 GMT
That's the quirky bit. It wasn't about a good singer.  |
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 12, 2017 21:49:50 GMT
No it wasn't, but.......................it was annoying.......very, very, very annoying.
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Post by sherri on Jan 12, 2017 21:56:25 GMT
It's not my usual sort of movie- I usually prefer disaster movies.
But hey, it almost qualifies. Might try to see it!!
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 13, 2017 0:49:41 GMT
Disaster Movies???
Like "Joe versus the Volcano"? Or "The Towering Inferno"? Or "Poseidon"? Or "Earthquake.....When Worlds Collide......Asteroid"? Etc., Etc., Etc.?
Man, where were you when I was growing up? All my dates went for the expensive Chick Flic movies....like "Doctor Zhivago"....."The French Lieutenant's Woman"....... "Breakfast at Tiffany's"..........."Julia". Get my drift? Sometimes it was worth it.........but usually not.
Story of my life.
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Post by sherri on Jan 18, 2017 22:05:18 GMT
Put it this way: If you presented me with a choice of entertainment, I'd be picking something from the first list, for sure.
I've never heard of Joe versus the volcano, that must have passed me by. Thoroughly enjoyed the book 'The Towering Inferno', remember 'The Poseidon Adventure'. probably one of the few people who enjoyed the 4th of July movie (had a good laugh in sections).
I think I once watched 5 minutes of the French Lieutenant's Woman but was bored witless so changed the channel.
Just finished reading a couple of interesting books. One was called 'An ordinary epidemic' and I would swear it was inspired by all that swine flu hullaballoo a few years back. Set in Sydney.
Not often we get an aussie setting for anything, it can be hard to get used to. I grew up expecting all adventures to be set in places far away, where I had only the murkiest idea of where they would be on a map.
Then a disaster book of a completely different kind. Called 'The Unit', set in USA after a nuclear explosion.
Of the two, I enjoyed the ordinary epidemic better. Interesting scenario.
Another one from a few year's back was "War Day". Again, set in USA but fascinating. A USA that was no longer united. It had only suffered a number of small strikes but the affected sections had been isolated. The rest of the world (except Russia I think) was going along the same. It was mainly interesting in the way it was written (as a supposedly first person reflection back over the past 5 years) and the descriptions of how people were affected, how society broke down. |
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 19, 2017 2:27:07 GMT
Ahhhhhhhhhhh............you should watch "Virus", a Japanese movie circa 1980. It has every disaster one could go through. Here's the plot
The actors are:
Masao Kusakari as Yoshizumi
Sonny Chiba as Dr. Yamauchi
Glenn Ford as President Richardson
George Kennedy as Admiral Conway
Robert Vaughn as Senator Barkley
Chuck Connors as Captain McCloud
Bo Svenson as Major Carter
Olivia Hussey as Marit
Henry Silva as General Garland
Isao Natsuyagi as Commander Nakanishi
Stephanie Faulkner as Sarah Baker
Stuart Gillard as Dr. Meyer
Cec Linder as Dr. Latour
George Touliatos as Colonel Rankin
Chris Wiggins as Dr. Borodinov
Edward James Olmos as Captain Lopez
One of the funniest movies I have ever seen.
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